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  2. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain 1767 [43] This originated as an English street cry that was later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme. The words closest to the rhyme that has survived were printed in 1767. Humpty Dumpty: Great Britain 1797 [44]

  3. List of playground songs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English-language playground songs. Playground songs are often rhymed lyrics that are sung. Most do not have clear origin, were invented by children and spread through their interactions such as on playgrounds.

  4. Where is Thumbkin - Wikipedia

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    "Where Is Thumbkin" is an English-language nursery rhyme, action song, and children's song of American origin. [1] The song is sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques".The song and actions have long been used in children's play, and in teaching in nursery, pre-school and kindergarten settings, as it uses simple and repetitive phrases, and tactile, visual and aural signals.

  5. Category:American nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 04:20 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  6. How Many Miles to Babylon? - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. [3] The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. [5]

  7. Wind the Bobbin Up - Wikipedia

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    Wind the Bobbin Up" is an English language children's nursery rhyme and ... sedate action game, often with small children carrying out the actions in the lyrics. ...

  8. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book - Wikipedia

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    scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.

  9. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater - Wikipedia

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    The first surviving version of the rhyme was published in Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c., in London around 1797. [1] It also appears in Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete, printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. [1]